#Stations of the Cross

[artandthebible]

Christ Carrying the Cross

Artist: Sebastiano del Piombo (Italian, 1485-1547)

Date: 1515–1517

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

Here, Simon of Cyrene assists Jesus, emphasizing the heavy weight of the cross on his shoulders. A Roman soldier stands behind, his jeering face just visible in the darkness. In the background, the tightly packed composition opens up onto a crowd assembling at the foot of the hill of Golgotha, with two crosses barely visible. The luminous landscape is a hallmark of the artist's Venetian training. The painting's dramatic visual impact is a result of the powerful diagonals of the cross; the dynamic, almost sculptural quality of Christ's clothing; and the pathos of his expression.

The Art Institute's version is an autograph replica of a painting—now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid—made for Jerónimo Vich y Valterra, the Spanish ambassador to Rome. Other versions survive in the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg; the Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales, Madrid; and the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest.

[tomyfellowplutonians]

[stone-cold-groove]

St. Veronica.

[pink-fiat003]

Just gone to a Stations of the Cross for the first time tonight - it was so amazing! I loved it so much because I’m a really big fan of the sorrowful mysteries and sorrowful imagery in general, so this was really great. Will definitely try to go again next week.

[hiawathab]

Stations of the Cross, at the Cathedral of St. Joseph, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

[conformi]

Nathaniel Currier, Jesus bearing his cross, 1848 VS Sebald Beham, Hercules carrying the columns of Gades | The Labours of Hercules, 1545

[thevirginofthelillies]

William Adolphe-Bouguereau, Christ Meeting His Mother on the Way to Calvary, 1888

[infiniterichesinalittleroom]

Christ at the Column ca. 1490 artist: Unknown, Spanish

[ghostsandgod]

Stations of the Cross, part one.

[play-my-game]

[artandthebible]

Christ Falls on His Way to Calvary

Artist: Workshop of Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) (Italian, 1483-1520)

Date: 1515-1516

Medium: Oil on panel transferred to canvas

Collection: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

According to the Bible, Jesus fell three times on the way to the cross, although this detail is not explicitly stated in the biblical text but is part of the traditional "Stations of the Cross"

[elkshed]

making some drawing studies for a series of paintings of the Stations of the Cross except that instead of Jesus Christ it’s a cowboy is all fun and games until you get to Station 10 (Christ is Stripped of His Garments) and you have to google “man taking off jeans” and “penis reference” in the middle of a crowded coffee shop

[paulpingminho]

[apenitentialprayer]

La Vallée de Larmes, oil painting by Gustave Doré, 1883.

Taking pity the human race, condemned by the fault of the first parent, He -the Splendor of the Father's glory, the Image of the substance of God, the Ruler of the world, the Judge of the future age- came down to us from the heavenly citadel and the high throne of God to save us.

- Pope Pius II, Cum bellum hodie (2.4.8), trans. Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. Original Latin below.

Misertus humani generis, primi parentis culpa jam pridem damnati, ut nos redimeret, ex arce caelesti et altissimo Dei throno, splendor paternae gloriae, figura substantiae Dei, moderator orbis, judex futuri saeculi, ad nos descendit[.]

[pamphletstoinspire]

MARY’S WAY OF THE CROSS

[thefriedvoid]